The door that ......may not have been oiled for a while was pushed open, and Doug Rivers walked into the locker room with a sad face, and Jiang Yang, who was following him, also showed some helplessness, yes, the Celtics lost again.

With a 3-1 lead in the overall score, the Lakers pulled two games in a row, and the game was already tied 3-3 at the end of the game.

Today's game is not wrong to say that it is a massacre, in the second quarter of the game, the Green Shirts' defense is no longer as indestructible as it used to be, Perkins' departure, the blow to the Celtics is huge, and because they were a defensive team before, so their offense is very single, only with Ray Allen alone for the team to increase the score, what is more fatal is that the Green Shirts' interior line was completely captured by the opponent, Wallace ate three fouls in the second quarter, plus Parkin's injury, the Green Shirts were actually scrapped at halftime, At halftime, the Celtics trailed by a full 20 points, 31-51! And the Lakers obviously don't have any chivalry, and the idea of taking advantage of his illness to kill him is very durable on the court! By the end of the third quarter, the score had come to 76-51, and the Celtics had lost by as many as 25 points...... In the final quarter, the Lakers, who led by a large score, played a little slack, allowing the Celtics to seize the opportunity and narrow the score, but with 9 minutes and 21 seconds left in the game, Kobe Bryant stole Rondo, surpassing Horry to become the eighth in the NBA's all-time steal list. 89-67, the score speaks for itself.

Bryant scored a game-high 26 points, Ron Artest 15 and Pau Gasol 17! On the Kelle side, four people scored double-doubles, Ray Allen scored a team-high 19 points, Pierce 13 points, Rondo 10 points, but only 6 assists, Garnett 12 points, today's Celtics have been completely scattered, so after the game, everyone did not leave, the Green Shirts' locker room was also for the first time, declined all the players' interviews, even Doug Rivers, who had to attend the press conference, only finished participating, and walked back, looking at the dull atmosphere in the room, None of them knew what to say, and they had just received the news that Perkins had a bad injury and would not only miss the rest of the season, but also nearly half of the regular season next season before he could return...... After knowing such news, all the Celtic people could only look at each other, and then lowered their heads together, sighing helplessly.

Now they are indeed very helpless, don't look at the usual times when Perkins is there, everyone doesn't take him very seriously, and rarely passes the ball to him when attacking, but now that he is gone, the defensive holes on the inside are exposed all of a sudden.

The twenty or thirty minutes he spent on the court per game were crucial for the Celtics! Everyone understands that without Perkins, the Celtics' defense will drop by at least one level, and the Celtics' defense will be half as good as the Lakers' defense, and now as soon as Perkins is finished, the Celtics' defense will be declared finished...... At the same time, no one on the offensive end has stopped holding back the Lakers' interior line, and now it seems that although the Celtics have already won the match point, the situation is not good!

From 1-3 to 3-3 and then very likely to become 4-3, morale is not high in the whole Celtic team right now.

On the contrary, after the Lakers won the third game, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, after this battle was won, they stood on the starting line with the Celtics again, and in the last battle, the Celtics did not have Perkins, although Jiang Yang will play, but Jiang Yang is on the outside after all, and his defense is also on the outside, in this case, how is the opponent of the Lakers?

Some well-consumed media outside are already speculating that this year's championship must be the Lakers, and looking at the situation on the court, Jiang Yang's heart is not comfortable, after all, if it is not for Jiang Yang's reasons, maybe the Celtics will win in the fifth game, and there will be no need to hold it to the seventh game, the seventh game is too dangerous!

"Okay, I think everyone knows about Kendrick, there is still a day off before the finals, let's go back today, train at ten o'clock tomorrow morning, and talk about it later!" Doug Rivers opened his mouth, he really didn't know what to say now, to say something reassuring? It's obviously not that occasion, and if you say something discouraged, it's even less of an occasion.

So now he can only wave his hand, signaling everyone to leave, go home and prepare well, but although everyone left the court, they did not go back to their respective homes, but came to the hospital to see Perkins, Perkins's right leg injury is not light, the game the day after tomorrow is definitely not playable, I can't stand up, even if it is a closed injection, it is useless.

So everyone could only go home, and after Jiang Yang returned home, the three girls had already fallen asleep, only Jiang Yang's domestic dog stood up after hearing the sound of Jiang Yang opening the door, and after a while with Jiang Yang, he also went to sleep in the nest.

After Jiang Yang was left alone to wash his face, he lay on the bed, but he couldn't sleep after tossing and turning.

The current situation is too dangerous, how big a heart can you sleep with a pillow? Jiang Yang was like a pancake on the bed, turning over and rolling over, and finally was about to fall asleep, but he was suddenly choked.

Touching out his own things, Jiang Yang was stunned, it turned out to be his own small piece of glass, but this thing has been put in Jiang Yang's trouser pocket all the time, and it has never been taken out, and it suddenly appeared today, which made Jiang Yang a little surprised.

"Brush ......" The moment the small piece of glass touched Jiang Yang's hand, a white light flashed from the small piece of glass.

Jiang Yang looked at this white light, and in an instant, the sleepiness that he had cultivated with great difficulty was gone, and he looked at the small glass piece in front of him with all his attention, because he knew that if there was a white light flashing, it meant that he was going to have a new task! After taking over the last mission, Jiang Yang has not taken over the task for a long time, and Jiang Yang has not played a game today, so he is naturally not tired, plus he is not sleepy when he has something in his heart, it is a very good choice to do the task now, thinking of this, Jiang Yang has been staring at the small glass piece, and sure enough, as Jiang Yang thought, soon the white light became brighter and brighter, and finally after it exploded, a line of small words appeared on the small glass piece!

"Activate the new mini-quest, Death of the Giant! Date: January 18, 2003, Venue: Cumber Center, Houston, Team: Houston Rockets vs. Los Angeles Lakers, the first Yao Shark matchup! In the end, the Rockets defeated the Lakers 108-104, mode selection: substitution mode (that is, the role enters), choose to join the Rocket, difficulty c, draw an intermediate treasure chest after returning, choose to join the Lakers difficulty c, and draw an intermediate treasure chest after returning! Please select the ...... you want to join the team."

Looking at the words on the small glass piece, Jiang Yang was stunned for a moment, it was the first time that such a situation had occurred, the losing team and the winning team had the same reward and difficulty, in fact, this is also quite easy to explain, because although the Lakers at that time were about to collapse, but the strength was the strongest in the league, this does not need to be considered, although the contradiction between Kobe and O'Neal is about to be put on the table, but after all, it has not been put up, in this case, the Lakers are still a giant in the NBA.

And if Jiang Yang is not mistaken, this is Yao Ming's first season with the Rockets, and the Rockets of that season, the final regular season record seems to be 43-39, and they didn't even make the playoffs, although the Lakers' results that season were not good, 50-32 and fifth in the West, but at least they are much stronger than the Rockets, and when there is an obvious difference in strength between the two sides, the difficulty will decrease, even if this team loses! What's more, there is now such a variable as Jiang Yang...... "Choice, Houston Rockets!" Jiang Yang looked at the words on the small glass piece, and chose the Houston Rockets in the next second, and then the white light flashed, and when Jiang Yang opened his eyes again, he had already appeared in the arena in Houston.

However, it is not the current Toyota Center, there was no Toyota Center in Houston at the beginning, and this arena is called Compaq Arena.

You may not be very familiar with the brand Comber, this brand mainly sells computers, PCs and notebooks and the like, Houston is a high-tech space city, so there are a lot of high-tech businesses stationed here.

This brand is very popular in the United States, but it has no reputation in China, after all, people in China don't recognize this thing very much.

By the time Jiang Yang opened his eyes, he had already appeared in the locker room of the Rocket team, although he had not seen the locker room of the Compaq Center, but the huge rocket Peugeot could not be wrong, looking at the Peugeot in front of him, Jiang Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hi Jiang, what's wrong with you? Uncomfortable? At this time, a rough voice sounded in Jiang Yang's ears, Jiang Yang looked back and saw Yao Ming, in fact, the Chinese who just came to the United States are not very easy to mix, Jiang Yang was fine at that time.

After all, there is a black president in power, so even if there is racial discrimination, everyone will not say it, those Chinese who broke into the United States in the 80s and 90s are not so lucky, and Yao Ming has become the first person in Chinese basketball in 02 years, and participated in the draft this year as the champion, joined the NBA, and became the core figure of the future team of the Rockets, but until now, Yao Ming has always been very interested in his identity, even with the help of Francis, Yao Ming still didn't feel very comfortable in the team, and now he suddenly saw a Chinese teammate, so Yao Ming quickly became familiar with Jiang Yang, this is Jiang Yang's small piece of glass to Jiang Yang, about his information in this world.

"It's okay, it's going to be a game!" Jiang Yang looked at Yao Ming in front of him and asked, but it was the other way to make Yao Ming happy!

"It's only afternoon, and there's still five hours to go!" Yao Ming said to Jiang Yang in his plastic Mandarin, and after listening to Yao Ming's words, Jiang Yang smiled and shook his head, this task system is good at any point, it can help you grow, and you can help yourself become famous, but the concept of time is really poor, and I often come here at night, but after I come, it is daytime.

"Hah, then I'll sleep first! I didn't sleep well last night...... "I have long been used to such a time difference, Jiang Yang directly found a massage table in the stadium and lay down directly to sleep, everything is ready for tonight's game."

One day inside the mission world, one hour outside, because this is just an ordinary small copy of the regular season, so Jiang Yang doesn't need to worry about being discovered, tonight it is estimated that the three girls know that they are not in the mood, and they will not come to find themselves, so they have given themselves enough time to prepare, anyway, there is still time now, Jiang Yang is ready to sleep first.

"Hi Jiang! It's really fast to run......" Seeing Jiang Yang run away, Yao Ming, who had just entered the alliance, couldn't help but mutter.

Five hours, long or short, if you just stay there with nothing to do, five hours is enough to annoy you.

But if you sleep, especially if you haven't slept all day, those five hours are only enough for you to sleep for a while.

At half past six in the afternoon, the Lakers' bus entered the gymnasium in Houston, and then at seven o'clock, Jiang Yang was woken up and began to warm up! Looking at his teammates, Jiang Yang is really not familiar with his teammates, and the clothes of the Rockets in the 02-03 season are quite ugly...... The home team uniform is white with red stripes, and the away team uniform is deep basket and white, this team uniform can be regarded as one of the most ugly team uniforms in the league, but the Rockets players like this team uniform, the Rockets in the 02-03 season are currently in a state of reconstruction, since the Rockets won two consecutive championships in the nineties, the Rockets have actually been going downhill.

Jordan's first general from the comeback of the Rockets still want to fight, Charles Barkley ran to the Rockets to hug Olajuwon's thigh, but then Olajuwon left the team, retired, Buckley also went to be a commentator, those veteran players are basically gone, Jiang Yang now knows the players on the court, Yao Ming is definitely one, but the current Yao Ming is still relatively immature.

After all, this is his rookie season! And there are other players, James Posey, Jiang Yang also know!

is still playing in the league, and he used to be the hero of the Celtics' championship, but it seems that he really has a lot of championship rings in his hand. There is also the absolute core of the current Rockets, Steve Francis, others like Eddie Griffin, Morchens Taylor, Calvin Cato, Terrence Morris, Martin Norris, and the more famous old cat, Catino Mobley, these people don't know Jiang Yang, but it seems that everyone knows him~ Look at him and say hello to him.

In the Celtics team, Jiang Yang is the absolute sixth man, because of the four positions of the main force, Jiang Yang cannot occupy other positions.

But here, Jiang Yang's position is very stable, at least more stable than the newcomer Yao Ming, although Yao Ming is the core of the team in the future.

Jiang Yang's offense is almost the same level as Francis in the team, the defense is stronger than him, the air, bounce, physical fitness, etc., are better than Francis! In the past, Jiang Yang played copies and always let others abuse him, but now it looks like he is finally going to abuse others!

Soon, the Lakers players all entered the court to warm up, and the Lakers players had more acquaintances.

After all, Jiang Yang was still a member of the Lakers team 'last year', Kobe Bryant, Shaquey O'Neal, Rick Fox, Derrick Fisher, and Dragon, Smack Walker, as well as Robert Horry and Devin George on the bench.

They are all players that Jiang Yang is familiar with, and everyone's impression of Jiang Yang seems to be still the same as when he helped the Lakers win the Kings last year, but now Jiang Yang's level is only understood by Jiang Yang himself, of course, the coach of the Rockets, Tom Jakovic also understands, otherwise he would not have put Jiang Yang in the starting lineup when he was in the starting lineup.

When he was in the locker room, Jiang Yang was stunned for a moment when he heard Tang Shuai read his name, but then he reacted.

For him, this is definitely a happy thing, starter! What you can't find...... However, with him as the starter, the height of the Rockets' starters on the court, the problem is shown, it is indeed not easy to do!

But anyway, the outside height of the Rocket team is just like that, no matter how short it is, how short can it be, and Jiang Yang is not too short.

So under the deployment of Tom Jakovic, Jiang Yang has never gotten the starting position in the Celtics, and finally achieved it in the Rockets in 03, the starting lineup of the Rockets is as follows, center Yao Ming, power forward James Posey, small forward Jiang Yang, scoring guard Catino Mobley, point guard F boss, Steve Francis.

The coach of the Lakers is still Phil Jackson, who Jiang Yang is familiar with, and the lineup is, center Shakui O'Neal, O'Neal also came over to say hello to Jiang Yang at the beginning, after all, Jiang Yang is also half of his teammates last year, big forward Smack Walker, small forward Rick Fox, scoring guard Kobe Bryant, and point guard Derrick Fisher Jr.

Today is Yao Shark's first head-to-head matchup, the last matchup, O'Neal was injured and did not participate in the game, Yao Ming scored 20 points on 9 of 9 shots, and let Buckley kiss the donkey's butt, so this time, it is the first duel between the two, the first meeting between the two giants on the basketball court, and fans in the audience and even around the world are extremely concerned about this giant battle in the new century.

Yao Ming can now be said to be the pride of the Chinese, plus a Jiang Yang, that is even more proud, Jiang Yang and Yao Ming against O'Neill, just see who can dominate the situation on the field today! At the referee's signal, Yao Ming and the shark stood in the center circle.

(To be continued)